The 10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters

I've had this data all collected in various locations for years. And I've been frustrated with how long it still takes me to look things up. It's finally time to put them all together in a single place, and I really prefer having a physical book by my side. I'm old school and learned how to look up Chinese characters from a real Kangxi (康熙) order dictionary (the ones that use the traditional 214 Radicals).

This is, as far as I know the world's first Chinese character dictionary that includes readings in so many languages. What's great about this volume:

Granted, that's more than 10 languages. Both Shanghai and Wenzhou belong to the Wu language, but they are very different from each other, so you could consider them two languages.

Looking things up in a Chinese dictionary can be difficult, quite often. Here are ways that I've helped with this problem:

There's a radical lookup on the first page

There's a list of all characters by radical starting on the second page

Followed by a list of each index in the back of the book. You can click on anything in the electronic version and get taken there immediately.

From each index in the back of the book you can look up a word by its pronunciation.

If you're curious to know about the Middle Chinese rimes, you can even compare all the characters that belong to a specific rime, class, and tone.

Clicking on any character in an index will take you directly to that character entry.

Chinese characters are easy -- said nobody, ever. I'm an old hand at Chinese, but I still prefer having a print version by my side. I've got several here, each one for a specific language, and it means I always have a pile of books around me.

We've decided to make the dictionaries available in electronic format.